From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:48:55 -0800 Received: from noose.gt.owl.de ([62.52.19.4]:17162 "HELO noose.gt.owl.de") by oss.sgi.com with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:48:38 -0800 Received: by noose.gt.owl.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 6C7957FE; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:48:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by paradigm.rfc822.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B39EF597; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:49:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:49:05 +0100 From: Florian Lohoff To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: crash in __alloc_bootmem_core on SGI current cvs Message-ID: <20010116174905.D7327@paradigm.rfc822.org> References: <20010116153618.A1347@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:01:15PM +0100 Organization: rfc822 - pure communication Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Meanwhile, could you please try to boot with "mem=0x07800000@0x08800000" > command line option? This will show if the non-contiguous memory is the > problem or not -- you have a relatively small block at the beginning. > Works [...] On node 0 totalpages: 65536 zone(0): 65536 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda2 mem=0x07800000@0x08800000 Calibrating system timer... 1250000 [250.00 MHz CPU] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) Calibrating delay loop... 124.51 BogoMIPS Memory: 118480k/122880k available (1176k kernel code, 4408k reserved, 75k data, 56k init) [...] Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?